Published date: 2 November 2021

Last edited date: 2 November 2021

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 9 November 2021, 11:59pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

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    • Provision of services to the community - 75200000

    • Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79300000

    • Adult and other education services - 80400000

    • Equal opportunities consultancy services - 98200000

    • Miscellaneous services - 98300000

    • Services provided by extra-territorial organisations and bodies - 98900000

Location of contract

Kuwait

Value of contract

£19,800

Procurement reference

WFD_KU_021121

Published date

2 November 2021

Closing date

9 November 2021

Closing time

11:59pm

Contract start date

12 November 2021

Contract end date

15 February 2022

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) is delivering a project to support women's political participation and representation in Kuwait. This six-month project is funded by the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). The programme will generate new insights and implementable recommendations for a more gender-responsive political sphere in Kuwait.

The most recent parliamentary elections in Kuwait resulted in two-thirds of incumbents losing their seats including the sole woman MP, leaving a parliament with no female representation despite 29 women running for office. Against this backdrop is borne a need to better understand and respond to the current Kuwaiti gendered political landscape, particularly following the 2020 elections. Leading up to the next elections, it is necessary to better understand both the formal and informal political dynamics in Kuwait, particularly the spaces where women are able to exercise political leadership.

To better understand the political, economic and sociocultural factors that affect women and girls and their political participation in Kuwait, WFD is commissioning an in-depth, gender-sensitive political economy analysis (PEA) to assess the country context and identify concrete opportunities for programming around the inclusion of women, ensuring relevancy with HMG's areas of focus. Through the findings of the PEA, WFD seeks to identify programming areas to improve women's leadership in the political space, potential advocacy opportunities and key stakeholders to engage.

WFD has developed a gender-sensitive PEA framework that is designed to identify problems without assuming solutions and is informed by probing systems and processes; key players including those that are left out of decision-making processes; behaviour drivers; and asks who is missing from the political process. This analytical framework actively aims to foreground the voices of marginalised and under-represented communities who are seeking to interact with the political process. The consultant will be briefed on WFD's PEA framework and encouraged to use this to inform the analysis.

Purpose of consultancy:
• Undertake a gender-responsive, contextualised PEA focusing on agreed priority areas that reflect interconnected power relations of politics, economic and social factors which can inform current and potential future WFD country programme;
• Lead in designing the methodology of PEA that is feasible and contextualised;
• Undertake data collection & analysis on the lines of enquiry established in the PEA;
• Analyse collected data and its implications for programme implementation;
• Write up the PEA findings in a comprehensive PEA report (draft and final versions), structure to be agreed with WFD
• Lead in the development of a summary version of the team's finding for external use;
• Lead an external briefing on the PEA for relevant stakeholders.

Please see attached TOR for further details on how to apply and timelines

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About the buyer

Contact name

Priya Bahia

Address

22 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2EG
England

Email

Priya.Bahia@wfd.org

Website

www.wfd.org